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18 Cards in this Set
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Aunt Julia spoke Gaelic Very loud and very fast |
I could not answer her - I could not understand her |
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I could not answer her - |
I could not understand her. |
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She wore men's boots |
When she wore any. |
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- I can see her strong foot, Stained with peat, |
Paddling with the treadle of a spinningwheel While her right hand drew yarn Marvellously out of the air |
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Paddling with the treadle of the spinningwheel |
While her right hand drew yarn |
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Hers was the only house Where I've lain at night |
In the absolute darkness |
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Where I've lain at night |
In the absolute darkness |
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Of a box bed, listening to |
Crickets being friendly. |
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She was buckets |
And water flouncing into them. |
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She was winds pouring wetly |
Round house-ends. |
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She was brown eggs, black skirts |
And a keeper of threepennybits |
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In a teapot. |
Aunt Julia spoke Gaelic |
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Very loud and very fast. |
By the time I had learned |
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A little, she lay |
Silenced in the absolute black |
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Of a sandy grave |
At Luskentyre. But I hear her still, welcoming me |
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With a seagull's voice |
Across a hundred yards |
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Of peatscrapes and lazybeds |
And getting angry, getting angry |
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With so many questions |
Unanswered. |
